# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasuhiko-asaka
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:28:56.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasuhiko-asaka"
name: "Yasuhiko Asaka"
slug: "yasuhiko-asaka"
description: "Prince Yasuhiko Asaka  was the founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family and served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Japanese invasion of China and the Second World War. He was the son-in-law of Emperor Meiji and uncle by marriage of Emperor Hirohito. He is most notable for being the commander of Japanese forces outside Nanjing in December 1937, when he presided over the mass murder and rape of hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians during the Nanjing Massacre."
tagline: "Japanese prince (1887-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HIH_Prince_Asaka_Yasuhiko.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1887-10-20"
deathDate: "1981-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.37
  momentum:             0.4182472989195678
  historical:           17.11438933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "朝香宮鳩彥王"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ياسوهيكو أساكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ياسوهيكو اساكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Asaka Yasuhiko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Yasuhiko_Asaka"
    title: "Prince Yasuhiko Asaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prens Yasuhiko Asaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Принц Ясухіко Асака"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "朝香宮鳩彥王"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump